Collaboration

Interprofessional Collaboration

The following are resources for people that are interested in learning more about interprofessional collaboration in maternity care.

Washington State Physician-Midwife Workgroup

A group of physicians and midwives in Washington State formed The Physician-Midwife Workgroup, a multidisciplinary subcommittee of the Washington State Perinatal Collaborative (WSPC). This workgroup has developed a quality improvement project initiative to enhance the safety of planned out-of-hospital birth transports, including a multi-disciplinary perinatal transport committee to review and improve transports. The model has improved communications between partners and is adaptable to individual hospitals. Learn more about “Smooth Transitions: Enhancing the Safety of Planned Out-of-Hospital Birth Transports – A Quality Improvement Initiative of the Washington State Perinatal Collaborative” through the Project Manual or by visiting the WSPC website.

Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics of North America: Special issue on Collaborative Practice in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Over a period of two years Richard Waldman and Holly Kennedy worked together to collect examples of collaborative OB/GYN and CNM/CM practices. From 60 articles collected, they chose 11 to showcase collaborative models of care that work in this special issue.

Multidisciplinary Collaborative Primary Maternity Care Project

The Multidisciplinary Collaborative Primary Maternity Care Project (MCP2), completed in June 2006, was designed to help address the human resource shortage crisis that exists in the provision of intrapartum care to pregnant women. The overarching goal of MCP2 was to reduce key barriers and facilitate the implementation of national multidisciplinary collaborative primary maternity care strategies as a means of increasing the availability and quality of maternity services for all Canadian women.

The initiative developed various guidelines and tools to facilitate the implementation of models of multidisciplinary collaborative care that could relieve health human resources shortages. These tools affect policy and facilitate changes in practice patterns. The findings of MCP2 helped provide a framework for the development of SOGC’s A National Birthing Strategy for Canada.

Lead and Partner Organizations: Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada; with the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses; the Canadian Association of Midwives; the Canadian Nurses Association; the College of Family Physicians of Canada; the Society of Rural Physicians of Canada.

The MCP2 project has identified 7 knowledge transfer modules that support the development of a multidisciplinary collaborative primary maternity care model. The 7 modules are combined in the linked document.